Visiting firefighter sustains minor injuries in Northwestside crash

3:51 PM,
Apr. 25, 2013

A visiting firefighter was injured after a crash with a white pickup truck earlier today.

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An Ohio firefighter in town for the annual Fire Department Instructors Conference was injured in a crash shortly after midnight today on the Northwestside.

Darrell Perkins, 51, told authorities he was on his way back to his hotel and was driving north on Michigan Road when a white truck turned in front of him. Perkins, a volunteer firefighter for Box 21 Rescue Squad in Dayton, sustained minor injuries and was taken to Methodist Hospital.